I vy T ech C omm u ni t y C ollege C eleb r a t e s 60 Y ea rs A RICH HISTORY OF SERVING OUR COMMUNITY
The Downtown Indianapolis campus of Ivy Tech Community College came to fruition two years after the Indiana General Assembly founded what was then called the Indiana Vocational and Technical College in 1963. Ivy Tech started offering classes in Indianapolis in 1965 after a couple of true trademark examples of Hoosier hospitality. First, in 1964, P. R. Mallory and Company gifted a four-story industrial building on its near east side campus, located at 1315 E. Washington St., to Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS). Then, the following year in 1965, IPS leased the property to Ivy Tech. There, Ivy Tech's Indianapolis campus was able to operate fully with 10 full-time faculty and staff, who, at the time, had upwards of
300 part-time students. Even more on-brand for the State of Indiana's Hoosier hospitality, the 10 individuals who were instrumental in Ivy Tech Indianapolis' early days were technically not even employed by Ivy Tech but by IPS. This was, of course, until Ivy Tech's Central Indiana region was formally charted in 1969. Ivy Tech continued conducting Indianapolis classes in the East Washington Street building for the next several years while also offering courses in what was once the American United Life Insurance Company at North Meridian Street and Fall Creek Parkway. Then, in 1983, Ivy Tech officially moved its Central Indiana Region classes and administrative operations to the building that we now know as the Glenn W. Sample North Meridian Center (NMC).
Indiana General Assembly Establishes the Indiana Vocational Technical College
Ivy Tech Central Indiana is Formally Chartered
Glick Technology Center Opens
1963
1969
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1965
1983
2005
Ivy Tech Begins Offering Classes in Indianapolis
Ivy Tech Central Indiana moves to North Meridian Street at Fall Creek Parkway
Ivy Tech Becomes State's Official Community College
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